topped and hacked at by public utilities this mid~sized hag, sits over along side the Madison Safeway, ignored
ankles and belly billowing over sidewalks, threatening pedestrian and automobile alike
as some inverted octopie, with fern necklace
this city doesn't have too many large trees within it's crusty walls, the whole west coast was logged out fairly recently, and then of course all the hills were blown flat with water cannon and man sized ideas of incline, one hundred years ago this place was one huge mud field, stabbed through with blackberry
a large canopied tree within the cities streets is a very hard thing to photograph, i think one must use a large format camera, but the step back distance may be too great, i'll see what i can do.
spring still pops from these hideous branches
this week i've been reading an amazing book, which is too large to read properly, they should publish a pocket sized version for us smaller folk, sans coffee table
Meetings with remarkable trees
by
Thomas Pakenham
well, written, poetic, full of quotation, old prints and new photographs, wonderful narrative, historical, focused, loaded with all the things that i love in a book, story telling, truth and grace
a word i rarely get to speak.
this book goes from here, out to you with high recommendations
N~
i was reading the tree registry trying to find some trees that i could visit on our trip to the coast, when i found out that this huge old Madrona tree lived right there on W 8th in Port Angels
apparently Ted loved this tree so much and fought for it's survival for so long that when he died his wife bought the city lot it lived upon and turned into a park
funny, i took some pictures and marvelled at it's size but i didn't touch it
nice, thick, tall, well formed, just wonderful
right in the middle of town
and look at the size of this baby
